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Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the w...
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Mark Van Doren (1894-1973), U.S. poet. The Distant Runners (l. 13-18). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harc...
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''But I am here,
And they are far, and time is old.
Within my dream the grass is cold;
The legs and locked; the sky is dead.''
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Mark Van Doren (1894-1973), U.S. poet. The Distant Runners (l. 33-36). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harc...
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William Claire (4/3/2007 8:45:00 PM)
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The astonishing variety of poems in MarkVan Doren's Collected & New Poems, and two later volumes, Morning Worship and Good Morning, the latter introduced by Richard Howard, is staggering in its brilliance and knowledge of the world. A line can be drawn from Dryden and Wordsworth to modern day breakthroughs written long after his Pulitzer Prize volume of 1939.Poetry to him was a form of daily bread, and he has nourished, and will continue to nourish, readers to the end time.
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